Broadway Designers Jane Greenwood & Wendall Harrington to be Honored at USITT 2015

Two famed Broadway designers who are also Yale School of Drama colleagues, Jane Greenwood and Wendall Harrington, will receive USITT Distinguished Achievement Awards in 2015.

Greenwood, whose career as a costume designer spans six decades, will receive USITT's Distinguished Achievement Award in Costume Design at USITT's 2015 Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Cincinnati March 18-21.

Harrington, a pioneer and mentor in the art of projection design, will receive the USITT 2015 Distinguished Achievement Award in Education for her contributions to teaching this emerging discipline.

Jane Greenwood, a UK native who moved to New York in 1962, has created costumes for more than 125 Broadway shows, including the current Broadway comedy You Can't Take It With You and this year's acclaimed Act One. She won a 2014 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre and has taught costume design at Yale School of Drama since 1976.

Wendall Harrington, often called "the Queen of Projections," has been the nation's leading projection designer for over 30 years - from her first Broadway show, They're Playing Our Song in 1979, to The Who's Tommy in 1993, to Driving Miss Daisy in 2011.

In Cincinnati, she'll be honored as an educator who has led the nation's first MFA program in projection design at Yale since 2009 and mentored dozens of young designers in the art of projections through assistantships and what director David Warren called "Scuola di Wendall."

Both women will be honored with special sessions on their work at USITT 2015, and will appear in a Friday, March 20 panel of Distinguished Achievement Award Winners in Conversation with other honorees.

USITT, the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, is the national non-profit for performing arts and live entertainment design and technology. Its Annual Conference & Stage Expo attracts some 5,000 members of the backstage industry for networking, education, recognition, and exploration of the latest technology. For more information, please visit www.usittshow.org.

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